Udhagamandalam (TN), October 20: The union government today told a tribunal examining the validity of the ban on LTTE that the outfit was supporting Maoist activities and would pose danger to the sovereignty and unity of the country if it was not proscribed.
Deposing before the 14-member Unlawful Activities Prevention Tribunal, headed by Justice Vikramjit Singh, at its public hearing here, P K Mishra, Secretary, Internal Security, Ministry of Home Affairs, said LTTE’s extension of support to Maoist activities in India would also prove dangerous to the security of the country.
Mishra said an LTTE sympathiser Manivannan alias Castro was held on charges of abduction and arms smuggling in India after 2008.
The LTTE formed to espouse the cause of Tamils in Sri Lanka, was first banned in India in 1992 under the Unlawful (Prevention) Activities Act, which has been renewed once in two years since then.
–Agencies